ANGELIKI PEPONI (9915-AD45-763C)

Curriculum Vitae

ANGELIKI PEPONI

Angeliki's research interests lie primarily in urban sustainability transitions accelerated by nature-based solutions (NbS). Her focus is on understanding, measuring, assessing, and predicting the complexity of urban socio-eco-evolutionary dynamics, including an ecosystem services perspective in the process. By doing so, urbanization can be better planned, managed, and therefore, beneficial maximizing the socioeconomic benefits, and reducing its environmental impacts. Angeliki holds a PhD in Geography with a specialty in Regional and Urban Planning from the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT), University of Lisbon (UL), and in Applied Landscape Ecology from (CULS) under cotutelle agreement. She graduated in 2022/04/19 with Distinction and Honors. She obtained her Master in MSc. Study Programme of Landscape Engineering in the study field of Landscape Planning in 2016/05/31 by the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Environmental Sciences. She completed her BSc studies in Geography at Harokopio University of Athens, Greece (2012). Angeliki is an integrated researcher at the Forest Research Center (CEF) School of Agriculture, working on MERLIN project (101036337-MERLIN-H2020-LC-GD-2020;22M; 44 EU partners) after winning an international competitive call and a collaborator researcher of the research group Modeling, Land Use and Planning, Centre of Geographical Studies, IGOT. Her research interests lie primarily in urban sustainability transitions accelerated by nature-based solutions (NbS), sustainable energy transitions, and the impacts of Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) changes on ecological connectivity. My current research focus is on understanding, measuring, assessing, and predicting the complexity of urban dynamics and their influence on ecosystem functioning. By doing so, urbanization can be better planned, managed, and therefore, beneficial, maximizing the socioeconomic benefits and reducing its environmental impacts Keywords: sustainability transitions; transformative change; decarbonization policy; industrial diversification; urban system dynamics; urban metabolism; urban growth; smart cities; urban places; urban regeneration; ecosystem services; land reclamation; restoration; landscape connectivity; spatial modeling and analysis; statistics; machine learning; artificial neural networks.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: ANGELIKI PEPONI
Gender: Female

Citation names

Peponi, Angeliki
Peponi, A.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 9915-AD45-763C
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6191-7320

Knowledge fields

Engineering and Technology - Environmental Engineering - Environmental Engineering
Social Sciences - Economic and Social Geography - Urban Studies
Engineering and Technology - Environmental Engineering - Remote Sensing
Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences
Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Greek (Mother tongue)
Spanish; Castilian	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
French	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)
Portuguese	Elementary (A2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Elementary (A2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Elementary (A2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2024/11/09 Concluded	Measuring Land-Cover Change Using ArcGIS Pro (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica) Esri Inc, United States
2024/11/09 Concluded	Python Tips and Tricks for ArcGIS (Outros) Esri Inc, United States
2024/10/14 Concluded	Spatial Data Science: The New Frontier in Analytics (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica) Esri Inc, United States
2024/05/14 - 2024/05/14 Concluded	Introduction to Google Earth Engine (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica) TERRA- Associate Laboratory for Sustainable Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Portugal
2024/05/10 - 2024/05/10 Attended	Metrics That Make a Difference: How to analyse Change and Error (Outros) Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Portugal
2024/04/29 - 2024/05/03 Concluded	Science Writing (Outros) TERRA- Associate Laboratory for Sustainable Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Portugal
2023/02/23 - 2023/02/25 Concluded	Introduction to Marxan & Marxan with Zones (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2018 - 2022/04/19 Concluded	Applied and Landscape Ecology (Doctor of Philosophy) Ceská Zemedelská Univerzita v Praze Fakulta Životního Prostredí, Czech Republic "Smart Cities, Smart Growth. Paving the Way to Urban Regeneration." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2018 - 2022/04/19 Concluded	Geografia (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal "Smart Cities, Smart Growth. Paving the Way to Urban Regeneration." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Distinction and Honours
2020/11/11 - 2021/03/22 Concluded	Project and Financial Management EN3 (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica) Ceská zemedelská univerzita v Praze, Czech Republic
2018/09/15 - 2019/02/08 Concluded	Geocomputation (Curso de mestrado (conclusão do curso de especialização)) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2018/10/22 - 2018/10/22 Concluded	Monitoring Ecosystem Services – Current Challenges for Smart and Sustainable Urban Development (Outros) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Escola de Gestão de Informação, Portugal
2017/12/28 Concluded	Certificate for Portuguese Language course completion LEVEL A2 (Outros) Languagecraft, Portugal
2016/05/31 Concluded	MSc. Study Programme of Landscape Engineering in the study field of Landscape Planning (Master) Ceská Zemedelská Univerzita v Praze Fakulta Životního Prostredí, Czech Republic "GIS and Artificial Neural Network-Based Approach for Integrated Coastal Zone Management" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Diploma with Honours
2012 Concluded	Geography (Bachelor) Charokopeio Panepistemio Tmema Geographia, Greece "Geomorphological study of the archaeological site of Ramnous, NE Attica, Greece" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2008/11 Concluded	Computer Aided Desing (CAD) Professional Certificate (Diploma de especialização) Vellum Global Educational Services, Greece
2005/02/23 Concluded	DIPLOMA IN FRENCH LANGUAGE STUDIES (B2) (Diploma de especialização) Ministry of Higher Education, of Research and Innovation, France

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/06/01 - Current	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Florestais, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2018 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2016 - 2022/04/19	Researcher (Research)	Ceská Zemedelská Univerzita v Praze Fakulta Životního Prostredí, Czech Republic

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2021/03 - 2025/02	eMOTIONAL Cities: Mapping the cities through the senses of those who make them H2020-SC1-BHC-2018-2020 collaborator researcher Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal	European Union Ongoing
2022/06 - 2024/06	MERLIN: Mainstreaming Ecological Restoration of freshwater-related ecosystems in a Landscape context: INnovation, upscaling and transformation 101036337-MERLIN-H2020-LC-GD-2020 Post-doc Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Florestais, Portugal	European Union Ongoing
2021/03/01 - 2023/08/31	Sustainable Transformative Transitions Sus2Trans— Conciliate Accelerated Low Carbon Transitions with System Transformations PTDC/GES-AMB/0934/2020 Researcher Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal Instituto Politécnico de Viseu Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Viseu, Portugal ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa DINÂMIA'CET Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território, Portugal Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia, Portugal Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2021/03 - 2023/08	Sustainable Transformative Transitions Sus2Trans¿ Conciliate Accelerated Low Carbon Transitions with System Transformations PTDC/GES-AMB/0934/2020	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Bonifácio Ana ; Morgado, Paulo; PEPONI, ANGELIKI; Ancora Leonardo; Mora Diego; Conceicao Marta ; Miranda Bruno . Corresponding author: Bonifácio Ana. "Espaço público e saúde mental. O caminho para uma nova disciplina com base em evidência". In Desigualdades em SaÚDE, Desigualdades no território. Desafios para os países de lingua portuguesa em contexto de pós-pandemia, edited by Eduarda Marques da Costa; Louro, Ana, 311-322. LISBON, Portugal: CEG Centro de Estudos Geograficos, 2022. Published • 10.33787/CEG20220006
Conference abstract	Mameri, Daniel; Duarte, Gonçalo; Cabo, J; Segurado, Pedro; Figueira, R; Maria Teresa Ferreira; Santos, JM; et al. Corresponding author: Mameri, Daniel. "RivFISH: Addressing the spatial distribution and vulnerability of native fishes in European rivers". Paper presented in SFE2 – International congress of Ecology and Evolution, Lyon, 2024. PEPONI, ANGELIKI; Duarte, Gonçalo; Moreno, Diogo; António Tovar Faro; Leite, Tamara; Anjinho, P; Borgwardt, F; et al. "Developing a Spatial Database for Europe-wide Screening of Restoration Needs and Potential for Freshwater-related Ecosystems.". Lisbon, 2023. Published • 10.13140/RG.2.2.28064.56320 Peponi, Angeliki; Duarte, Gonçalo; Anjinho, Phelipe; Moreno, Diogo; Borgwardt, F.; Baattrup-Pedersen, A.; Birk, S.; Ferreira M.T; Branco, Paulo. "Unlocking Restoration Potential: A European Index for identifying potential areas towards maximizing Freshwater related Ecosystems’ Restoration". Lisbon, 2023. Published Peponi, Angeliki; Duarte, Gonçalo; Anjinho, Phelipe; Moreno, Diogo; Borgwardt, F; Baattrup-Pedersen, A; Birk, S; Ferreira M.T; Branco, Paulo. "Mapping Restoration Potential: A European Index for freshwater-related ecosystems restoration". Kostelec, 2023. Published Borgwardt, F; Duarte, Gonçalo; Branco, Paulo; Leite, Tamara; Peponi, Angeliki; Ferreira, M.T ; Birk, S; et al. "Assessing freshwater restoration options on a pan-European perspective to support the targets of the EU nature legislation". Newcastle, 2023. Published Duarte, Gonçalo; Peponi, Angeliki; Moreno, Diogo; Leite, Tamara; Faro, A.; Borgwardt, F; Birk, S; et al. "Exploring the current status of European Freshwater Ecosystems". Newcastle, 2023. Published Duarte, Gonçalo; Segurado, Pedro; Haidvogl, G; Moreno, Diogo; Peponi, Angeliki; Leite, Tamara; Santos, J.; et al. "No continent for Freshwater fish – Current status and threats of European freshwater fish species". Newcastle, 2023. Published Viana, Cláudia M. ; PEPONI, ANGELIKI. "Revealing the cereal production in Portugal: a time-series analyses for sustainable agriculture". Paper presented in 10th CASEE Conference - The role of life science universities in redirecting land use from threat to guardian of ecosystem, 2019. Published
Conference paper	PEPONI, ANGELIKI; Morgado, Paulo. Corresponding author: PEPONI, ANGELIKI. "3D Geovisualization City-scenarios with combined data for Noise and Air Quality Mapping". Lavrion, 2018. Published
Conference poster	Peponi, Angeliki; Morgado, Paulo; Peter Kumble, Assoc.. "Towards smart and regenerative urbanism under the urban metabolism concept". 2023. 10.13140/RG.2.2.19693.56809 Duarte, Gonçalo; Peponi, Angeliki; Moreno, Diogo; Leite, Tamara; Borgwardt, F; Birk, S; Baattrup- Pedersen, A; et al. "Defining river units for European-wide freshwater restoration targets.". 2023. 10.13140/RG.2.2.28429.31205
Journal article	Anjinho, Phelipe; Mariana Abibi Guimarães Araujo Barbosa; Angeliki Peponi; Gonçalo Duarte; Paulo Branco; Maria Teresa Ferreira; Frederico Fábio Mauad. "Enhancing Water Ecosystem Services Using Environmental Zoning in Land Use Planning". Sustainability (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/su16114803. 10.3390/su16114803 Mário Vale; Angeliki Peponi; Luís Carvalho; Ana Patrícia Veloso; Margarida Queirós; Paulo Morgado. "Are peripheral regions in troubled waters for sustainability transitions? A systematic analysis of the literature". European Urban and Regional Studies (2023): https://doi.org/10.1177/09697764231194316. 10.1177/09697764231194316 ANA BONIFÁCIO; Morgado, Paulo; PEPONI, ANGELIKI; LEONARDO ANCORA; DIEGO ANDRÉS BLANCO-MORA; MARTA CONCEIÇÃO; BRUNO MIRANDA. Corresponding author: ANA BONIFÁCIO. "Musings on Neurourbanism, Public Space and Urban Health". Finisterra 58 122 (2023): https://revistas.rcaap.pt/finisterra/article/view/29886. Open access • Published • 10.18055/Finis29886 Spyridoula Karavida; PEPONI, ANGELIKI. Corresponding author: Spyridoula Karavida. "Wind Turbine Blade Waste Circularity Coupled with Urban Regeneration: A Conceptual Framework". Energies (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/en16031464. 10.3390/en16031464 Bonifácio, Ana; Morgado, Paulo; Peponi, Angeliki; Ancora, Leonardo; Blanco-Mora, Diego Andrés; Conceição, Marta; Miranda, Bruno. "Reflexões sobre neurourbanismo, espaço público e saúde urbana". (2023): https://doi.org/10.18055/Finis29886. 10.18055/Finis29886,title PEPONI, ANGELIKI; Morgado, Paulo. Corresponding author: PEPONI, ANGELIKI. "Life cycle thinking and machine learning for urban metabolism assessment and prediction". Sustainable Cities and Society 80 (2022): 103754-103754. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2022.103754. 10.1016/j.scs.2022.103754 Angeliki Peponi; Paulo Morgado. "Correction: Peponi, A.; Morgado, P. Transition to Smart and Regenerative Urban Places (SRUP): Contributions to a New Conceptual Framework. Land 2021, 10, 2". Land (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/land11030318. 10.3390/land11030318 PEPONI, ANGELIKI; Morgado, Paulo. Corresponding author: PEPONI, ANGELIKI. "Transition to Smart and Regenerative Urban Places (SRUP): Contributions to a New Conceptual Framework". Land 10 1 (2020): 2-2. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10010002. 10.3390/land10010002 PEPONI, ANGELIKI; Morgado, Paulo. Corresponding author: PEPONI, ANGELIKI. "Smart and Regenerative Urban Growth: A Literature Network Analysis". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2020): https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/7/2463. 10.3390/ijerph17072463 ANGELIKI PEPONI; Morgado, Paulo; J. Trindade. "Combining Artificial Neural Networks and GIS Fundamentals for Coastal Erosion Prediction Modeling". Sustainability (2019): http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/4/975. 10.3390/su11040975
Preprint	Duarte, Gonçalo; Peponi, Angeliki; Segurado, Pedro; Leite, Tamara; Borgwardt, Florian; Funk, Andrea; Birk, Sebastian; Maria Teresa Ferreira; Branco, Paulo. "River Restoration Units: Riverscape Units for European Freshwater Ecosystem Management". 2025. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202501.1142.v1. 10.20944/preprints202501.1142.v1
Report	Duarte, Gonçalo; PEPONI, ANGELIKI; Leite, T; Faro, A; Moreno, D; Anjinho, Phelipe; Segurado, Pedro; et al. Corresponding author: Duarte, Gonçalo. 2023. MERLIN deliverable D3.1 Screening maps: Europe-widemaps of the needs and potentials to restore floodplains, rivers, and wetlands with a range of restorationmeasures. EU H2020 research and innovation project MERLIN deliverable.. https://zenodo.org/record/7845755#.ZEB1BnbMKUk. 10.5281/zenodo.7845755

Other

Dataset

Duarte, Gonçalo; Peponi, Angeliki; Pedro Segurado; Leite, Tamara; Borgwardt, Florian; Funk, A.; Sebastian Birk; 8F11-2CA2-1E59; Paulo Branco. River Restoration Units (1.0). https://zenodo.org/records/10753900. 2024.
10.5281/zenodo.10753900

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2022/09/13	Espaço Público E Saúde Mental. O Caminho Para Uma Nova Disciplina Com Base Em Evidência	Geosaúde2022. Desigualdades em saúde. Desigualdades no território: desafios para os países de língua portuguesa em contexto pós-pandemia Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Territorio, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/06	Troubled waters: sustainability transformative transitions in peripheral regions	Trinity College Dublin & University College Dublin (Dublin, Ireland)
2022/05/05	Literature Network Analysis on Sustainable Transformative Transitions at a regional scale	International workshop-consulting day for the Sus2trans Project (FCT;PTDC/GES-AMB/0934/2020) Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/05/05	GREENING INDUSTRY TRANSITIONS AND THE REGIONS: Contextual determinants of trajectories	Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/11/05	Geotechnologies as a Tool to Monitor and Implement Blue-Green Infrastructure for Smart Urban Development	XVI Colóquio Ibérico de Geografia- Peninsula Iberica no Mundo: problemas e desafios para uma intervencao ativa da Geografia Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Territorio, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/04	Visualization of Environmental Quality in 3D city model	III International Conference Urban E-Planning Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Territorio, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/06/15 - 2023/08/01	MSc student’s Internship Co–supervision: "GIS and database creation and management in the scope of the MERLIN project (H2020, grant No 101036337) and the Dammed Fish project (PTDC/CTA-AMB/4086/2021) " Co-supervisor	Msc Intership Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2020/05/04 - 2020/05/25	Landscape Planning Studio Workshop (2020/05/04 - 2020/05/25) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Ceská zemedelská univerzita v Praze, Czech Republic
2019/04/19 - 2019/04/19	Geographical Modeling and Spatial Analysis Workshop (2019/04/19 - 2019/04/19) Workshop (Other)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2024/06/17	Strengthening Urban Resilience: Unleashing the Power of Green Infrastructure in European Cities (Thesis) Main arguer	Jenan Hussein (PhD) Ceská Zemedelská Univerzita v Praze Fakulta Životního Prostredí, Czech Republic
2024/02/09	MSc thesis plan discussion entitled: Refinement and Conceptual Methodological Harmonization of Structural and Circumstantial Maps of Rural-Urban Interfaces. (Thesis) Main arguer	Aziza Ben Tanfous (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2023/06/22	Barriers that impede the development of wind energy and mitigation pathways thereof (Thesis) Arguer	Spyridoula Karavida (PhD) Ceská zemedelská univerzita v Praze, Czech Republic

Consulting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2024/02/01 - Current	Provision of consulting services related to prioritization sites in the European river network for dam removal. The work was promoted by the Open Rivers Programme.

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2025/02 - 2025/07	Guest lecturing on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) I	(Mestrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2019/09 - 2019/12	GIS I	(Master)	Ceská Zemedelská Univerzita v Praze Fakulta Životního Prostredí, Czech Republic
2019/09 - 2019/12	Landscape Planning Studio I	(Master)	Ceská zemedelská univerzita v Praze, Czech Republic

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2023 - 2024	Ph.D. thesis mentorship "Effects of climate and land use changes on water ecosystem services: understanding the mitigating effect of green land use scenarios"	Phelipe Anjinho.
2022 - 2023	Mentoring and co–supervising a Ph.D. student on work tasks related to the systematic literature review conducted for eMOTIONAL Cities project (H2020–SC1–BHC–2018–2020)	Ana Bonifácio
2022 - 2023	Mentoring and supervising a MSc student on work tasks related to the systematic literature review conducted for the Sus2Trans project (PTDC/GES–AMB/0934/2020).	Ana Patrícia Veloso
2022 - 2023	Mentoring and co–supervising a MSc student on work tasks related to mapping exercise conducting a Europe–wide screening of restoration needs and potential conducted for the MERLIN project (101036337–MERLIN–H2020–LC–GD–2020).	Diogo Moreno
2022 - 2023	Mentoring and co–supervising a Ph.D. students on work tasks related to mapping exercise conducting a Europe–wide screening of restoration needs and potential conducted for the MERLIN project (101036337–MERLIN–H2020–LC–GD–2020).	Tamara Leite
2022 - 2023	Mentoring and co–supervising a Ph.D. students on work tasks related to mapping exercise conducting a Europe–wide screening of restoration needs and potential conducted for the MERLIN project (101036337–MERLIN–H2020–LC–GD–2020).	Antonio Faro
2022 - 2023	Mentoring and co–supervising a Ph.D. students on work tasks related to mapping exercise conducting a Europe–wide screening of restoration needs and potential conducted for the MERLIN project (101036337–MERLIN–H2020–LC–GD–2020).	Phelipe Anjinho
2021 - 2023	Ph.D. thesis mentorship "Adverse Impacts of Wind Farm Installations that are Impeding the Development of Wind Energy and Mitigation Pathways thereof"	Spyridoula Karavida

Distinctions

Award

2022	The Rector's Prize for PhD students with outstanding research and publication results in academic year 2021-2022 Ceská zemedelská univerzita v Praze, Czech Republic
2016	The Rector's Prize for outstanding results achieved during university studies. Ceská zemedelská univerzita v Praze, Czech Republic

Title

2016	The academic degree of Inzenýr (Ing.) to be used in front of the name Ceská Zemedelská Univerzita v Praze Fakulta Životního Prostredí, Czech Republic